Here's the thing about the original novel version of the Godfather.

It's important you ask Colin Friel questions about Water Rats.

Earl's terrible because he's a stereotypical black hipster. You could see him lurking around the edges on a particuarly terrible episode of a Norman Lear show without any major changes.

Something that's been bugging me recently is why does there seem to be an indian lady with an english accent on every single new programme this season. Did some sort of immigration law get relaxed in America or something?

I'm still waiting for the 'Hot Asian Dude'.

You know what else is in a martini?

I actually thought of Appledelhi as more of a projection of Edward rather than a reaction to Spike. All her weird cat-likeness and eccentricity taken to their logical end in the tigerish looking and crazy Appledelhi.

You are going to feel slightly uncomfortable about this post once you see the film.

The first season is a little bit Law and Order: Wog Victims Unit and it never stops being about race, but yeah. It does get stronger as it goes on.

Melissa George was perhaps the most attractive woman I'd ever seen in person at that point and she was only sorta kinda famous. I spent a lot of time wondering what she looked like naked.

I want to dislike Packed to the Rafters but it really is absurdly good at doing what it's trying to do.

Australia does produce a lot of really great television that tends to slide under the radar because people tend to be culturally cringey about it. Like Rake and Review with Myles Barlowe and East West 101 and so on and so forth.

I met her once through her cousin when I was 17 or so.  Which is the reason the Playboy thing sticks in my head.

She was also in Playboy.

I think Jews are kind of in that awkward place in western culture where there's racism against them but not really the sort that gets to join in with the other big racism anymore. It's there and it's unpleasent but it's gottent to the point where it's kind of hard for people to get that excited about it unless racism…

Something else fun about Melbourne.

The book is a bit Book Clubbish, to be honest. So it was never actually going to be as High Brow as it thinks it is.

I meant more that the Greeks don't suffer from anti-semitism.

In the 60's, there was a /massive/ wave of greek and mediterranian migration to Australia. So there are a lot of Greeks and so for a few years, they defined the conversation about the immigrant experience in Australia. They're /just/ different enough they can bring up ethnicity and so on without making people…

I used to think Jennifer Schwalbach was hot. Then I realised I was getting her confused with an Empire Records era Rene Zellweiger for some reason.